Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Finally Hooking Again

Yippee, I'm backing hooking on my lion again and just a little more background and it will be ready for steaming and binding. I really like that inside wiggly border and the look the wool gives, that wool came from Betsy and is called Smokey Joe.

This is the 1840 antique sewn and shirred rug from which this pattern was designed.

I'm not quite sure how I want to bind this one. I have whipped rugs with wool yarn before but after time the wool yarn will move about, separate and some of the linen backing shows though and I don't like that. I was commissioned to whip someone's rug with wool strips but since it wasn't mine do not know how that one did, but probably better than using wool yarn. Have also bound the rug with wool bias and do like how it looks but not sure it is worth the trouble. You see, that nice rug wore in a spot so now to repair it would require more work taking a section apart and fixing it than if I used binding tape. So think I'll do the binding tape.

Luckily I can relax and hook now that the Uncle Sam (actually made two of them) has been finished. I will take both to the show on Saturday but in the event only the one order sells I'll list this one on my web site.

Now that I'm getting near the end of the lion rug better put on my thinking cap and decide what I want to hook next. But Saturday my plans at my show are to hook on the spiral rug and use that as the teaching aid for wannabe hookers. And it will give me a chance to use up my worms, hook without thinking (or at least too much) and even if I did pull loops of colors which didn't match too well they would be so short that it would be an easy fix.

About Me

This is Ben, a handsome Rottie adopted from a local vet referral.
I prefer wide cut primitive style rugs but I have hooked a memorial profile of my departed Rottweilers in #3 and it was beautiful. I know that I can successfuly hook narrow cuts but my heart is with wide cut primitives as our foremothers use to do.
I always told Shadow (my departed Shepherd mix) that she would be a wide cut girl and I hooked her profile in #8 strips in 2013.